Flossenbürg-Rochlitz

Names

• Rochlitz
• Außenlager Rochlitz

Type

• Concentration camp
• Subcamp of Flossenbürg
• Forced labour camp

Dates

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Locations

Döhlen barrack camp

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Riding arena in Rochlitz

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Organisations involved

• Mechanik GmbH]

Victims and Survivors

Population information

• On September 14, 1944, the fi rst transport of 201 women and girls for work at the Mechanik GmbH arrived at Rochlitz from the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
• On February 13, 1945, the airplane weaponry main committee transferred the group of Hungarian and Polish Jews, which had come to Rochlitz in September 1944, to Calw in Württemberg, where they formed a new subcamp of the Natzweiler concentration camp at the Luftfahrtgeräte GmbH (Lufag).

Current status

Memorials

Memorial location

No memorial known at this time.

Resources

Bibliography

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Volume I: part A page 663
• Der Ort des Terrors, page 244
• Das Nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, (CCP), page 234
• Die nationalsozialistischen Lager, page 194
• Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS 1933-1945, page 119

Links

• https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de/de/geschichte/aussenlager/rochlitz